For 19 years, Chris Davies helped people move into a modular Jim Walter Home. On Tuesday, the manager of the company's Goose Creek branch learned that she won't have that opportunity anymore. Tampa, ...

For more than 50 years, Tampa-based Jim Walter Homes built hundreds of thousands of affordable houses — but only for people who already owned some land. The company actually turned away business if ...

It was a good idea born of the simplest intentions. More than 60 years ago, Jim Walter Homes became a frenzy, a household name, a springboard for something bigger expansions into coal mining and high ...

So the company that was Jim Walter Homes that became Walter Industries and is now Walter Energy is calling it quits in Tampa after 60-plus years. The move to Birmingham will put Walter Energy an ...

The parent company of Jim Walter Homes, which operates a branch in Houston, has shut down its home-building business. Tampa, Fla.-based Walter Industries, a natural resource and energy company, said ...

Walter Industries of Tampa, Fla., closed its Jim Walter Homes business, which has a Beaumont office, but it's not a reflection on the Southeast Texas market, local builders said. Jim Walter Homes, ...

A Mississippi jury has ordered Jim Walter Homes Inc. to pay $13.3-million for building shoddy houses for three families. The award, issued Thursday, stems from a lawsuit filed last year in the Circuit ...

Walter Industries, the Tampa-based conglomerate that operates Tuscaloosa County coal mines, said today it will close its Jim Walter Homes subsidiary to concentrate solely on its energy businesses.